This year, the Stallion Show at Crystal and Brent Fernung's Journeyman Stud is scheduled for Dec. 15 and it will be more than a chance to see Khozan (Distorted Humor), who is the fourth leading first-crop sire worldwide, and their newest addition, St Patrick's Day (Pioneerof the Nile), a full brother to American Pharoah, as [...]

The State Farm Work Center in Goochland County, Virginia, is located in the middle of beautiful hunt country and surrounded by a very tight community of successful horse people. When the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) established the Second Chances program, commonly referred to as Barn 4, at the State Farm Work Center (which was then [...]

Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue opened its gates in 2008. Founded by Deanna Mancuso, the organization transformed from an adoption oriented charity to a sanctuary model and a powerhouse of key partnerships that sets it apart from many other Thoroughbred-centered groups. Their name comes from their first retired racehorse resident, Lucky Orphan (Obligato). Lucky Orphan is [...]

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) farm at the Lowell Correctional Center, now in its 19th year, is the third in sequence of the TRF's Second Chances Programs, which pairs retired racehorses with incarcerated men and women. It was launched in partnership with the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association which continues to fund the program [...]

Two consistent themes of Julie Krone's Junior Jockey Camp at Long Shadows Farm in Cambridge, NY were the importance of good horsemanship and the adherence to the actual rituals and rigors of life at the racetrack. Of course, it wouldn't be Jockey Camp without Thoroughbreds. The Jockey Camp horses either live at Long Shadows, a [...]

Reid McClellan has been teaching Groom Elite and The Elite Program for more than 20 years. The program is designed not only to teach grooms how to care for racehorses, but also how to communicate with the horses in their charge. In 2005, McClellan began teaching the program to inmates at a number of the [...]

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) farm at the Wallkill Correctional Facility recently celebrated its 35th anniversary. The perennial partnership sealed in 1983 paved the way for off-track Thoroughbreds as therapeutic learning partners for all people but most notably for men and women who have suffered PTSD, have substance abuse issues, anger management problems and many [...]

For as long as there have been horses in barns, there have been barn cats. At Saratoga Race Course, cats have always lived among the horses. The cats provide service through rodent control and companionship for the people caring for the horses. Many stables who have their own cats take them when they leave at [...]

Saratoga War Horse (SWH) recently celebrated the milestone of serving 1000 veterans in its program where off-track Thoroughbreds help veterans overcome the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 2018, SWH resumed regular programs in New York through its new partnership with the Rerun Thoroughbred Adoption farm in East Greenbush. SWH now operates in three [...]

This past Monday was the fifth and final week of the ACTT Naturally Teen Leadership program for selected high school students from Mechanicville High School just outside of Saratoga Springs, NY. During the five-week program, funded by Thoroughbred trainer and alumnus Chad Brown, the students learned about body language, assertive versus aggressive behavior, and the [...]

Saratoga War Horse (SWH) recently celebrated 1000 participants in its healing program using off-track Thoroughbreds to help veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Late last year, SWH began having regular programs in New York at the Rerun Thoroughbred Adoption farm in East Greenbush. Now operating in three states, New York, Maryland and South Carolina, [...]

When Eric Hamelback, currently the CEO of the National HBPA, read a story in the TDN two weeks ago about how high school students from Mechanicville, N.Y., were benefitting from a program with ACTT Naturally, Inc., he was so thrilled to see that the horse in the program was MGSW Harlem Rocker (Macho Uno) that [...]